Reid’s Gifts To Nelson And Landrieu Push Snowe Further Away
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 22nd, 2009 5:46 am by HL
Reid’s Gifts To Nelson And Landrieu Push Snowe Further Away
The perks that Senate Democratic leadership put into the final health care bill to win the support of conservative caucus members may cost them the…
Cecile Richards: Women on the Verge
Once again, at the final hour, women’s rights and access have been traded away in the new Senate health care bill. Rights and access that we may not get back anytime soon, if ever.
Joseph A. Palermo: The Oligarchy Wins Again!
A forty-vote Republican minority in the United States Senate controls the destiny of all legislation aimed at addressing the nation’s most pressing needs after eight…
Arianna Huffington: The Senate Health Care Bill: Leave No Special Interest Behind
There are many reasons for hoping the Senate health care bill doesn’t become the law of the land. But the biggest reason of all is the desperate need for a DC pattern interrupt. The desperate need to draw a line in the sand against the continued domination of our democracy — and the continued undermining of the public interest — by special interests. From start to finish, the insurance and drug industries — and their army of lobbyists — had control over the process that resulted in a bill that is reform in name only. A new study found that 179 former congressmen and Congressional staffers were actively engaged in lobbying their former colleagues on the bill. The companies they were working for spent $635 million on lobbying. It was money extremely well spent.
